Home
RSS
Is business a bad word? What will be your opinion while watching this commercial supporting Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who has been imprisoned in her home country, Burma (The Union of Myanmar!) for the last 18 years?
Well, This.
Related Stories
Most Recent
Most Popular
Most Commented
10
Star It 
(0)
Costa Rica is the greenest and happiest country in the world, according to a new list that ranks nations by combining measures of their ecological footprint with the...
made popular 10 hr. ago
Parents were banned from attending an inter-school sports day to protect pupils from kidnappers and paedophiles.
The host school said they could not prevent...
made popular 11 hr. ago
Human Rights Watch said Friday that Zimbabwe’s armed forces have taken over diamond fields in the east and killed more than 200 people, forcing children to search...
made popular 12 hr. ago
The candidacy of Mario Anguiano, running for governor in a state election here Sunday, says a lot about Mexican politics amid the rise of the drug cartels.
A brother...
made popular 13 hr. ago
United States Marines moved into villages in Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan on Friday, meeting little resistance as they tried to win over local chiefs on...
made popular 13 hr. ago
Very few like me have a gut feeling that BJP will come back. It was a painful experience to witness rise and fall of a substitute to family-run congress. Congress which...
made popular 13 hr. ago
Max Blumental reports on The Daily Beast that Sarah Palin may have quit her job today because she was trying to avert a major, yet-to-be-disclosed corruption scandal....
made popular 13 hr. ago
The African Union refused to act on an international war crimes warrant for Sudan’s president, at a summit that also yielded a deal on the powers of a new...
made popular 14 hr. ago
The latest two-yearly study of the Australian Government’s Productivity Commission damningly reveals that indigenous children are six times more likely to suffer...
made popular 14 hr. ago
Thirty-one teenage boys have died from complications after botched traditional circumcision rites in South Africa’s rural Eastern Cape region, officials said on...
made popular 14 hr. ago
From Angela Merkel to Barack Obama, few have emerged unscathed from his peculiar brand of music hall humour, adolescent japes and sexist quips.
As Italy prepares to...
made popular 14 hr. ago
The crown of the famed New York Statue of Liberty will reopen tomorrow for the first time since September 11th, 2001, and what better day than the celebration of...
made popular 14 hr. ago
American nuns could be said to have their habits in a twist in the face of two investigations by the Vatican into whether they have come to espouse lifestyles and views...
made popular 14 hr. ago
The Jackson family has decided to hold a memorial for their late son at Los Angeles’ Staple Center. Jackson died last week from what was probably a strong...
made popular 15 hr. ago
Days before a historic visit of the US President to Russia gambling was narrowed just to four geographical areas of a country, far away from capitals and significant...
made popular 15 hr. ago
In Penitents Compete (Tovbekarlar Yarisiyor in Turkish), religious leaders will seek to convert at least one of the 10 atheists in each episode to their faith. Those...
made popular 15 hr. ago
Iran’s nuclear threat was never in doubt during its presidential campaign, but the post-election resistance raised the possibility of some sort of regime change....
made popular 16 hr. ago
Besides blocking access to food and construction to Palestinians in the Gaza Stripe - and even to a lesser degree in the West Bank - Israel also prevents Palestinians...
made popular 16 hr. ago
As many as 41 security personnel have been killed after their military helicopter fell down in Feroz Khel area, bordering the Orakzai and Khyber agencies, yesterday...
made popular 16 hr. ago
For all the complaints from American right-wingers that the European Union is a nation of appeasers whom do not stand up to thuggish regimes, the EU is actually more...
made popular 16 hr. ago
All Stories
Most Recent
Most Popular
Most Commented
Several thousand people in Burma (also called Myanmar) were severely affected as they completely lost their homes and livelihood after Cyclone Nargis devastated the...
made popular Sep 8 2008
At least 20 people have been arrested in the Burmese town of Taunggok after staging a silent protest on the 20th anniversary of a major uprising.
They were detained...
made popular Aug 9 2008
By Ashin Metacarra
The United Nations has been diplomatically trying to persuade Burma leaders for a long time. They tried by sending envoys. They talked with beautiful...
made popular Jun 20 2008
Women around the world have launched an ambitious international program entitled \’Panties for Peace\’ in which they would donate panties to the Burmese...
made popular May 31 2008
Burma has been named as the most persistent user of child soldiers, with thousands in its armed forces - some as young as 11, Human Rights Watch says.
made popular May 21 2008
Cyclone survivors in Burma are still begging for help. The international community cannot expect anything positive from a government that failed to even warn its...
made popular May 16 2008
What is happening in Burma is unconscionable! Cyclone Nargis made landfall on May 2, carving a path of destruction throughout the country, and yet here we are 13 days...
made popular May 15 2008
The disaster in Burma presents the world with perhaps its most serious humanitarian crisis since the 2004 Asian tsunami. By most reliable estimates, close to 100,000...
made popular May 13 2008
A new terror is stalking the survivors of Burma’s cyclone, as villagers in the deeply superstitious country tell of being haunted by the ghosts of those who perished...
made popular May 13 2008
The frequency of recent natural disasters, including the cyclone in Burma, an earthquake in China, tornadoes in Arkansas and Oklahoma and Georgia, volcano eruptions in...
made popular May 13 2008
According to The Sun, the death toll in cyclone-ravaged Burma could hit 500,000 if the ruling military junta still does not allow foreign aid into the country....
made popular May 9 2008
Natural disasters aren’t genocides. Or are they? Because in Myanmar that is exactly what is happening. Last week a major cyclone tore through that impoverished...
made popular May 9 2008
As if the poor Burmese people hadn’t already suffered enough under a brutally oppressive, communist regime, they suffered further loss and damage at a...
made popular May 8 2008
Tropical cyclone Nargis has brought incalculable disaster in Burma killing around 15,000, and counting. The military junta has issued a rare appeal for international...
made popular May 6 2008
Fifty-four Burmese migrants have been found dead after suffocating in a lorry smuggling them into southern Thailand.
More than 100 people were packed into a container...
made popular Apr 11 2008
Burma’s generals intend to block the Burmese democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, from ever leading her country, according to leaked copies of a new constitution...
made popular Apr 1 2008
Life has been hard as ever. No change or hope has come yet to us.
People no longer talk about politics for fear of arrest, accusations, safety and other frightening...
made popular Mar 31 2008
When humans turn animals they abuse their own children. The Myanmar military junta were earlier known as human oppressors; a kind of conglomeration of various devils in...
made popular Oct 31 2007
So, the protests in Burma have petered out and the leaders are on the run. The military junta used brute force to smother the rebellion amongst the common people....
made popular Oct 18 2007
Related Tags
Asia Aung San Suu Kyi China communism Cyclone cyclone Nargis Global human rights India military junta monks Myanmar natural disaster Nobel Peace Prize Politics & Society rangoon Sri Lanka U.S. UN United Nations
